Dog Day Afternoon1975
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
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Critic Consensus: Framed by great work from director Sidney Lumet and fueled by a gripping performance from Al Pacino, Dog Day Afternoon offers a finely detailed snapshot of people in crisis with tension-soaked drama shaded in black humor.
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as Sonny
as Sal
as N.Y. Detective Moretti
as Bank Manager Mulvaney
as Leon
as FBI Agent Sheldon
as Jenny
as Margaret
as Deborah
as Miriam
as Maria
as Howard
as Edna
as Cop (uncredited)
as Stevie
as Murphy
as Mother
as Father
as Angie
as Phone Cop
as Carmine
as TV Studio Anchorman
as TV Reporter
as Maria's Boy Friend
as Sam
as Doctor
as Pizza Boy
as Policeman with Angie
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Critic Reviews for Dog Day Afternoon
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On the other and substantial hand, most of those segments are very good. If the whole is less than the sum of the parts, if there really is no sum of the parts, those parts those parts are extraordinarily well made.
Enjoyable and even exciting at the start, Dog Day Afternoon degenerates into frustration and tedium toward nightfall -- an experience no less painful for the audience than for the actors.
One of Sidney Lumet's best jobs of directing and one of Al Pacino's best performances (as a bisexual bank robber) come together in a populist thriller with lots of New York juice
[Pacino] gives an electric performance, charged with a lunatic energy that expertly captures the weird blend of confidence and self-deprecation (if not hatred) that marks the paranoid syndrome.
Dog Day Afternoon is, in the whole as well as the parts, filmmaking at its best.
Pacino simmers in this daring and brilliantly constructed treatise on the many facets of a crime.
Audience Reviews for Dog Day Afternoon
An honest, gritty and unexpectedly sensitive performance by Pacino with strong support from Durning make this film well worth watching. Although the film is dated in many ways, its social messages are as relevant today as they were back then.
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Al Pacino gives arguably one of his greatest performances in this gritty & hostile film. Dog Day Afternoon supplies dramatic & classical moments with the amount of exploitation and nerve-racking elements of the actual true events coming into play, making this one of the best pictures of the 1970s. 4/5
Super Reviewer
Zowie! Sidney Lumet's vision of the Big Apple circa 1972 sparkles with historical and cultural authenticity (which I hated when it was released for being "too gritty", not Hollywood enough, but now understand as a perfect document of the times and worthy of any museum). In the meantime the story simply motors along, led by a electric Al Pacino and aided by a wonderful supporting cast too numerous to name. A beautiful film.
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Dog Day Afternoon Quotes
| Sonny: | Attica! Attica! |
| Pizza Boy: | I'm a fucking star! |
| Sonny: | Hey Leon! Happy Birthday! |
| Sonny: | Put your fucking guns down! Put your fucking guns down! Put your fucking guns down! Put your fucking guns down! Attica! Attica! Attica! Attica! Attica! |